Porityag Short film Review – Hindi
Understanding the core: Everyone will face problems. But we should not afraid and should face it.
Appreciation and critic:
Porityag short film is about a person who lost interest in his living and wanted to die. He is trying to commit suicide and how he came out of his mind is the reaming film. The first scene shows a location of a bus stop and it is nighttime. Someone picking a purse from the bus stop’s sitting table. There was a lot of money in it and he sees a govt. ID card. Suddenly another person comes into the place and watching. We can come to a prediction that he is the person to whom the purse belongs too, so he came back to take it. But there the plot starts. He allows him to take the money. So we can assume that the person is not interested in money and the scenes are conveying that he is planning to commit suicide. The other person kept the purse back and was leaving the place. But the protagonist doesn’t want the money back. He allows him to take the money with him.
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Here the other person understood that the protagonist is having some problem and finding it difficult to face it. So the other person was blinking and started advising the protagonist. So the majority of the film didn’t have any dialogues. Most of the scenes are conveyed through emotions. It was very beautiful to see those scenes and frames.
The director and his team worked very hard to bring the emotions and the artists are very good at projecting their performers. In the next scene, that stranger took the money and went. The protagonist started walking, but the stranger didn’t want to let him alone. He was trying to compromise the protagonist but he cannot do it. The protagonist left the place and sat on a bench in a public place.
Few things we have to say in this Porityag short film that, from the beginning, we can hear that this film used Foley. Foley sounds are not at their best and it felt like overdone the scenes. Foley used in every scene is felt overdone. For example, in the first scene, the eating sound of the dog felt overdone and it matched only 10%. Similarly, the sounds of the shoes, water drinking sounds are felt overdone. The team should focus on sound effects and range mixing. It was disturbing to watch the film and it was very clearly hearable too.
Another thing I wanted to say is that the lighting is very impressive. The lighting made justice to the time of the scene. But, the frame where the protagonist sits on the bench and the light was very bright. So I feel like we should have shown the source of light. For example, we could have shown a lamp near the bench, so it would be made justice.
The protagonist is holding a bottle and we can assume it is a poison bottle. He was thinking to take that and die. The whole Porityag short film was carried in a way that it making the audience assumes the scenes. We can say this as a kind of pattern, in a positive way or the filming is not as clear as it supposed to be, in a negative way. So it is upon the audience.
Another question arises whenever the protagonist drinks water. The water bottle was already at its 20% when it showed in the first few frames. Then after the protagonist using the bottle often but still it was not getting empty. So it felt something odd on the screen.
The protagonist sitting in front of a pond and was crying and seems very frustrated. He drank and spilled all the water in the bottle and to take up the pill, he doesn’t have water. He threw the bottle and the pill bottle. The Foley sounds made justice to the scenes here.
The frame is showing the stranger and suddenly a water-splash sound. So again we can assume that the protagonist fell into the pond. But that is the main plot in the movie. The stranger ran and looked around the area with a torch. He cannot find the protagonist. Then the frame showing the protagonist didn’t commit suicide. Then the protagonist realized that suicide is not a solution to our problems. Then, the stranger is calling the protagonist to his shop. The idea of introducing the stranger as the tea shop owner was a very impressive screenplay.
Throughout the Porityag short film, I felt only the Foley was overdone. Even when the stranger and the protagonist are breathing, it was recorded and mixed. Those sounds felt odd and awkward too. Those sounds didn’t even match the screen. If it wasn’t made me feel disturbed, then the film would have got more attention. Similarly, I don’t feel any creativity in the script. When it comes to 15 minutes film, there are lots of possibilities to detailing the film. But I felt a few details and clarifications missing in the film.
Talking about the frames – Cinematographer made justice to the film. I love the way it was filmed and captured, except in one place. The very first shot where the scene showing the face of the protagonist. That tight shot on the protagonist’s face was felt a bit inappropriate. Other than that everything was attractive.
Porityag short film is a good to be suggested to our friends, but I don’t see any creativity and innovation in the script. The way of filming was good, but the story was not enough to attract a person who watches more than 3 films every day.
Porityag short film is a great film and is eligible for competition. Because its content is very good and the screenplay at its best. But when it comes to projection if a film lover was seeing this, then it is a “question mark” that will it satisfy the viewer?
I love the way the screenplay was written and it is good to go with the flow of the story. The screenplay was attractive and one scene to another had continuity. Kudos to the writers’ team.
If you ask me to give ratings,
- For story and screenplay – I would like to give 7/10
- For direction – I would like to give 8/10
- For cinematography – I would like to give 8/10
- For sounds – I would like to give 5/10
- For music – I would like to give 7/10
- For DI – I would like to give 6/10
- For creativity and innovation – I would like to give 4/10
Overall I would like to give 6/10
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This short film got these many awards. Here’s the list.
Best Debut Filmmaker
- Istanbul Film Awards
- World Film Carnival Singapore
- 1st Monthly Film Festival Serbia
- Twilight Tokyo Film Festival
- Virgin Spring Cinefest
- Port Blair International Film Festival
- Uruvatti International Film Festival
- Tagore International Film Festival
- Sand Dance Rajasthan International Film Festival
- Rosebud International Film Festival
- Golden Sparrow International Film Festival
- International Film Festival of Andaman & Nicobar
- Indo French International Film Festival Pondicherry
- Gona Film Awards
- Ray International Film Festival Tamil Nadu
- Golden Earth Film Award
Best Director
- Onyko Films Awards Ukraine
- South Indian International Film Festival
- Global Monthly Online Film Competition
- Cooper Awards
Best Drama
- Europe Film Festival
- Halicarnassus Film Festival
- Bharat Independent Cinema Festival
Best Film
- Gold Star Movie Awards USA
- Mont Blanc International Film Festival Paris
- Oasis Inter Continental Film Festival
- L’Age d’Or International Arthouse Film Festival
- Tagore International Film Festival
- Global Monthly Online Film Competition
- Rameshwaram International Film Festival
Best Student Film
- Eastern Europe Film Festival Romania
- Cult Critic Movie Awards
- Great Asian World Cinema
Best Story
- Across the Globe Film Festival USA
- Asian International Film Festival
- Indian International Film Festival
Best Actor
- South Indian International Film Festival
- Across the Globe Film Festival USA (Runner-up)
Best Supporting Actor
Across the Globe Film Festival USA
Runner-up
- Across the Globe Film Festival USA
- Indian International Film Festival
- South Indian International Film Festival
- Best Shorts India
- Mumbai International Short Film Awards
- Cine Fair Film Festival
Special Mention
- Assurdo Film Festival Italy
- Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival
- Cochin International Film Awards
- Iconic Short Cine Awards
Finalist
- New York Movie Awards
- Luleå International Film Festival Sweden
- Anatolian Kisa Film Festivali
- IE Short Film Festival Spain
- Golden Art Best Director Award UK
- Art Film Awards Macedonia
- New Cinema Lisbon Monthly Film Festival
- Prague International Monthly Film Festival
- Košice International Monthly Film Festival Slovakia
- Madras Independent Film Festival
- Accord Cine Fest
- Cinema World Cannes Awards
- International Open Film Festival Dhaka
Semi-finalist
- Alternative Film Festival Toronto
- Lisbon Film Rendezvous
- Changing Face International Film Festival Australia
- Stockholm City Film Festival
- Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival
- Sweden Film Awards
- International Film Awards Georgia
- Travancore International Film Awards
Official Selections
- Frostbite International Indie Fest USA
- New York Flash Film Festival
- NAFCo Film Festival USA
- Luna Lumen Film Festival USA
- Short Shot Fest Russia
- Meihodo International Youth Visual Media Festival Japan
- Golden Harvest Film Festival Japan
- Golden Bridge Istanbul Film Festival
- Varese International Film Festival Italy
- Iconic Images Film Festival Lithuania
- Festival del Cinema di Cefalù
- La Dolce Vita Cine Roma
- Vesuvius International Film Fest
- Anatolia International Film Festival
- Wonderland Sydney International Film Festival
- Screen Power Film Festival UK
- Lift-Off Global Network UK
- First-Time Filmmaker Sessions UK
- Bizarrya Film Festival Portugal
- Filmarte Short Festival Portugal
- Make Art Not Fear Festival Portugal
- Cinema4screen Film Festival Mumbai
- Shortfundly Annual Film Festival Chennai
- Reels International Short Film Festival
- Golden Bengal Indie Film Meet
- International Kolkata Short Film Festival
- White Unicorn International Film Festival
- Global Indie Film Awards
- Indian Creative Minds Film Festival
- Vintage Reel Film Festival
- Nawada International Film Festival
- Khamrubu International Short Film Festival
- Indian Talents Film Festival
- Independent Film and Short Film Festival
- Ritu Rangam Film Festival
- Direct Monthly Online Film Festival
- ISFFB Short Cine-Somman
- Roshani International Short Film Festival
- Cine Star International Online Film Festival
- Green Petal International Film Festival
- Havelock International Film Festival
- Cine Fern Competition
- Limelight Film Contest
- Green Chilli Gangtok International Film Festival
- Ghum Darjeeling International Film Festival
- RedWood Film Festival
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